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The default sort order is ‘active’ members first. To easily change that, you can make use of bp_after_has_members_parse_args. For example, try adding this to your theme’s functions.php file:

function my_custom_member_list_sort( $ret ) {
$ret['type'] = 'alphabetical';
return $ret;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args',…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing @jimme595. bp_core_get_userlink is useful to know!

Not that I’m aware of. As far as I know you have to filter each type of action individually. The best way to do that is to go through your activity stream and list all of the different types of action. I doubt there will be many, perhaps ~10. Then search the codebase for the static portion of the string to find the right hook.

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Right, I see! Sorry about that.

The X created the group X text (and link around the first X) can be changed via the groups_activity_created_group_action filter.

You’ll need to use a different filter hook to change the user profile links. The bp_core_default_avatar_user filter is just for changing the image src attribute.

I am new to using W3 Total Cache. Are there any guides out there to setting that up for BuddyPress?

Not that I know of. Is there anything in the W3 Total Cache documentation?

@imath just built a plugin which looks pretty great. Try BP Restricted Community.

You’re not quite using the bp_core_default_avatar_user filter properly. The function you hook to it can take 2 parameters, the 2nd of which is $params.

function _bp_core_get_user_domain( $avatar_default, $params ) {
// You get the user ID here with $params['item_id']
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_default_avatar_user', '_bp_core_get_user_domain', 10,…

The key to finding a solution to this is investigate what has changed. If it was once working, then what has been introduced since then? Or, what have you deactivated since then etc.

If I deleted notifications, would people lose the ability to accept friend requests?

If you deleted friend request notifications, members would still be able to accept those friendship requests, they’d just have to go to their friend requests page and click accept or reject as usual.

Is there a table in the DB that deals specifically with notifications?

Yes. That’d be bp_notifications

If so, I guess I could just empty it before I emptied the stream and stream meta tables.

Shout up if anyone thinks that could be a problem.

Instead of deleting directly from the database, you should use these…[Read more]

bp_core_default_avatar_user will fire only if you have disabled Gravatar via the bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav hook.

So is the general consensus that you never purge the stream?

Personally I wouldn’t, because members might ask where their old status updates have gone if they ever decide to look back over them. But that’s just my opinion rather than a consensus. Whether it’s a good idea will depend on many things:

Are old items out of date (contain lots of…[Read more]

Yes, that sounds right. Getting the user ID is slightly different in BuddyPress depending on the context. See the Playing with the user’s ID in different contexts article for details.

Just to add, if you are looking for something to delete, old notifications might be a good place to start. The usual way (in BuddyPress) is to keep all of these, but many places around the web nuke them after they’re ~7 days old.

Am I okay to just clear the db table for bp_activity and bp_activity_meta

I wouldn’t do this because if anyone has notifications which point to the items you delete, then the member will be taken to a broken link.

I’m also guessing stream items DON’T get indexed by Google? I’m not going to create loads of broken results?

There’s nothing in Bu…[Read more]

This is theme-related. You’ll need to use CSS to change the text size.

Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

Maybe try echo c_ws_plugin__s2member_user_access::user_access_level( $user ); to see what that outputs?

Note: $user should be a WP_User object.

You need a way of getting the user’s type, then you can do this:

if ( $type === 'employee' ) {
// Show button.
} elseif ( $type === 'employer' ) {
// Hide button.
}

But where is the text “Vendor registration is currently closed. If you have an existing account, you may login and apply to become a vendor” coming from? I did’t find that anywhere in BuddyPress code when I just ran a search.

See: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress